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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can follow me personally on Mastodon [External Link].

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Killing Room, the rogue-like FPS has been delayed for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
I'm pretty sad about this, as I thought Killing Room actually looked really fun. I noticed the Steam page now only lists Windows, so I asked the developer about it and the Linux version is now delayed.
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Join me for a livestream tonight at 19:45 UTC

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
It's Friday livestream night and tonight you can join in. I will be live around 19:45 UTC playing Dawn of War II Retribution and Firewatch!
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Testing out 'Star Vikings', a casual puzzle RPG now out in full and available on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Star Vikings from Rogue Snail is a casual puzzle RPG where it plays a little like a reverse plants vs zombies. It feels very much like a casual mobile game.
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Manipulate the ground and fights robots in 'Cloudbase Prime' now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Cloudbase Prime is a charming Early Access game about fighting robots and manipulating hexagonal platforms the levels are built with.
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Shallow Space open-world beta now on Linux, bringing it to Linux helped overall performance

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
Here's something fun, Shallow Space has been re-working to be an open-world space game and the beta is now on Linux. The developer said getting it working on Linux helped overall performance.
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Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux after all, was a miscommunication

By Liam Squires-Hand,
29
Put the pitchforks down and stop flipping tables, as it seems Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux.
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HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

By Liam Squires-Hand,
32
Here's something awesome to see, the Valve demo of the HTC Vive on Linux was using Kubuntu, and we have some pictures.
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Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
27
For fans of oldschool Duke Nukem on Linux, sadly you're now out of luck. Gearbox took over the rights to Duke Nukem and Devolver's deal for Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition has ended, so essentially Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition is no more.
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'Can't Drive This' is a racing game where your friends build the track as you drive

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
The developers of 'Can't Drive This' just sent word that their crazy-fun looking racer is now on Linux. This Early Access game has your friends building the track as your drive, amusing.
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Colony building sim 'Maia' has a big update, taking another look

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
'Maia' is an Early Access colony building sim that has always shown promise, but the problem is that it has been quite buggy. This new release has polished the game up quite a bit.
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Small update to the PC info system today, you can now get a 'forum signature image'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
55
Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your pc details and username.
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Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.
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Transport Fever confirmed for day-1 Linux release on November 8th, plus gameplay video

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Transport Fever is really starting to look great, and the best news is that Linux is confirmed to be a day-1 release. We also have a new gameplay video.
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Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Squires-Hand,
20
Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.
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Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.
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Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.
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Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
32
Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.
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Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology

By Liam Squires-Hand,
46
This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.
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Steam to get a massive update soon, Asia revenue increased nearly 500% since 2014 and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
19
More information courtesy of all the developers at SteamDevDays. Steam will apparently be getting a massive update/refresh soon and the amount of games releasing on Steam has been increasing by a lot.
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Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Squires-Hand,
23
Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.
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